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Willfrey posted:All of my problems are usually not my fault same lol
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i joined the military
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May 26, 2020 23:10
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Willfrey posted:Hmmm... These are amazing. Vehicles are not your friend. It's not the worst decision I've ever made (that would be law school and not dropping out of law school) but your Boise story reminded me of a pretty hilarious ski accident I had at Bogus Basin. Basically, I got about 2/3 of the way down "Wildcat" decided to just bail and straight-line down . I ended up catching alot of air coming off 2-3 bumps I hadn't been able to see before I ended up on my back and slid off the side into a ravine. I remember sliding toward the edge and thinking "this is it.. this is how you get really injured skiing.. good job Flutie" closing my eyes and going through a net, a 'slow down' sign, over the side and into a bunch of tree limbs. I was about 10' below the trail tangled in a tree and missing a ski but aside from some tender ribs pretty much unharmed. Never bail out on a black diamond when you don't know conditions below.
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May 26, 2020 23:20
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It's pretty pedestrian in comparison, but I decided to get into a relationship with someone who systematically stripped me of almost all of my friends and turned out to be a serial cheater (and if I'd listened to my friends I'd have known that  ), got married to her, and spent three years in wedded poverty because she'd grown up with wealth and would just spend all our money as soon as it came in, and I was too spineless to do anything about it. When she didn't come back from one of her "friendly visits" to her male friends, I wasn't exactly heartbroken. (I found out later that apparently she didn't bother to wait until we were divorced in order to get married again, and that's why one day she was suddenly a lot more interested in the process getting done right now.) It's only after a couple years of therapy that I'm getting to the point that I don't have anxiety when I spend money (because she'd get upset if I spent "non-essential" money on something that wasn't for her) or look for work (we worked in the same field, and she hated it when I got work and she didn't). It's a cliche, but I'm pretty sure the last 14 years of my life would have been measurably better if I hadn't gotten involved with her.
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May 27, 2020 00:21
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:It's pretty pedestrian in comparison, but I decided to get into a relationship with someone who systematically stripped me of almost all of my friends and turned out to be a serial cheater (and if I'd listened to my friends I'd have known that im glad u got rid of her i like you
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May 27, 2020 00:28
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In early college before I was info hiking and stuff, was hiking at Mt. Rainer with my family, brother and I go on our own. Come up to a sweet valley at the bottom of a cliff. We test the cliff by rolling a rock down. Rock shatters, I say hey were more agile than a rock and down we go. Not satisfied, we wander the valley, no map, no supplies, and a white out warning on the day. See a bear at a river, and white out starts. Can't see anything, follow the river back to a trail, decide a direction and by some miracle make it back to the parking lot guessing every trail fork correctly. Rangers had been alerted and had already started some search parties and were absolutely shocked when we walked into the parking lot. It took a long time and a number of hikes before I realized just how stupid we had been.
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May 27, 2020 01:26
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Flutieflakes017 posted:These are amazing. Vehicles are not your friend. OMG lol, bogus basin black diamonds are sun baked bobsled runs I can only imagine how fast you were going I first learned to snowboard there and being a clueless former hick I wore blue jeans and cotton long underwear that were soaked after 2 runs of nothing but falling on my rear end. I was on a tiny snowboard I found in a dumpster and decided boarding was my new hobby. I had no knowledge or at the least did not pay attention to ski run difficulty so I think I started on a black diamond and moved to blue? I was a hazard to myself and everyone around me. I remember young kids going up a ski lift laughing and making fun of me as I lay cold, exhausted, defeated. LOL lookin back
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May 27, 2020 02:41
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1st_Panzer_Div. posted:In early college before I was info hiking and stuff, was hiking at Mt. Rainer with my family, brother and I go on our own. Come up to a sweet valley at the bottom of a cliff. We test the cliff by rolling a rock down. Rock shatters, I say hey were more agile than a rock and down we go. This is my life hiking minus the white out. One time me and a buddy were hiking in Oregon on an old logging road and a ranger pulled up and asked if we knew where we were. We told him no, and he said I have no idea where the gently caress we are either. So turn around, and go back the way you came otherwise you will get in too deep and nobody will ever find you. We laughed being experienced outdoors men. However after checking a map it was obvious that we had no appreciation for how expansive the Oregon wilderness is. You can go for hundreds of miles in any direction without ever seeing civilization and that is bad rear end as well as terrifying.
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May 27, 2020 03:54
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Smiling Mandrill posted:However after checking a map it was obvious that we had no appreciation for how expansive the Oregon wilderness is. You can go for hundreds of miles in any direction without ever seeing civilization and that is bad rear end as well as terrifying. And you just explained why it's fun to live here. The city people just don't understand what they're missing. 
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May 27, 2020 04:10
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Literally A Person posted:And you just explained why it's fun to live here. The city people just don't understand what they're missing. QFT Buy a walking GPS, google map your parking lot and ultimate destination and program in those coordinates, that's my MO if I am hiking unfamiliar territory
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May 27, 2020 04:21
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Theophany posted:I mean, I'm not proud of it. It's like the most tragic wannabe Wolf of Wall Street poo poo that every movie producer would turn down for being too middle class, I guess. You greedy pigs probably got a bunch of people innocently skimming small amounts of money at a time busted
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May 27, 2020 06:34
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Tetramin posted:You greedy pigs probably got a bunch of people innocently skimming small amounts of money at a time busted A friend from a different department told me that after the shitstorm had subsided, it all got brushed under the rug pretty quickly. The company was very publicly up for sale for a second time in quick succession and the total lack of managerial oversight was endemic. Not only that, but the guy that headed up the finance and audit departments was a board member and very good buddies with the CEO, so it looked really bad that his team had not been auditing expense claims at all.
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May 27, 2020 08:44
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Probably a toss up between huffing aerosol until I passed out or tipping the cab of a truck forward while I was in it. Honourable mention to jumping into the Gulf of Cagliari on my honeymoon when I have a mortal fear of open water.
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May 27, 2020 11:54
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Think the question should be when have I not done something stupid.
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May 27, 2020 12:02
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Did a few dumb things as a kid, but I think you get more of a pass. The dumbest thing I did with a fully developed (??) brain was when I was renting a cottage with some friends in the Lake District in the UK. I was on a walk with one friend, basically showing the some of the cool things in the vicinity. A couple of miles away there's an abandoned mine, and there is a cool bridge made of a single massive rock across a fairly deep ravine. I wanted to show him, but I could only remember half the way there, and I got to a point way below it but couldn't find the way up. I knew it was straight ahead, but couldn't figure out the way around, so I figured we'd just scramble up directly. The hillside was covered in ferns, so you couldn't really see the surface too well. And everything was loving sopping wet, because this is the UK. So we got about halfway up and it was getting steeper and steeper, and in fact it is now almost a vertical climb. Getting soaked through, not wearing anything appropriate save walking boots, only holding onto wet mossy rocks. I looked down at my out of shape friend below me, who is believing I'm knowing what I'm doing, and I realise that if one of us slips and falls, probably dead for sure. And no phone signal or people for a long way in any direction. And there's no way we can maneuver back down. So I make out like everything is totally fine and just press on. Story ends in total anti-climax, make it to the top alive and get where we're going - including finding the gentle winding path that is the actual way up, hiding just out of sight. I guess the moral of the story is don't just arbitrarily decide to climb a rain slick cliff face.
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Loyal friend
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